Typographical composing and distributing machine



March 1940- R. H. scoT'r TYPOGRAPHICAL COMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filer! March 23, 1939 Mamh 1940- R. H. sco'r'r TYPOGRAPHICAL GOMPOSING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 23, 1939 Patented Mar. 26, 1940 UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE mocaarmcar. COMPOSING AND to Linotype and ms'rnmu'rmo Macnnm- Richard Henry Scott, Enflcld, England, mimilimited, London,

Machinery England, a limited liability company of Great Britain r application March 23, 1939, Serial at. ass .02.;

- In Great Britain March :1, 193a Claims. (01. 19940 This invention relates to typographical composing and distributing machines, such as, for ex ample, those known commercially under the registered trade-mark Linotype,. wherein .typol duction of characters of special fonts, or head letter or display characters, andon distribution such elements are ordinarily passed through the distributing mechanism, which comprises a ribbed bar engaged by teeth on the elements to a pie v chute which conducts them, on release from the bar, to a special receptacle such as a pie stacker or pie bowl. One form of pie 'chute commonly employed is tubular and guides the elements mainly by their leading and following faces; consequently, if thin elements have to pass through a tube large enough to accommodate the thickest head letter elements, they are liable to tilt and jam in the chute. This diflieulty is avoided by the use ofanother known form of chute constitutedby a channelled member open at the forward side, which guides the elements mainly by the engagement of their laterally extending ears within channels on opposite sides of the chute, with the following faces of the elements abutting against the closed wall of the chute. The usefulness of this form of'chute,.

however is restricted inasmuch'as the ears of the elements which are to be guided therein must be located at, a substantially uniform distance from the following face of the element, the variations in thickness being at the forward side of the said cars, so that the bodies of the elements can extend forwardly through the open side of the chute. p

Various 'fonts of elements at present in use do not fulfill this requirement, and the object of the present invention is to provide a pie chute which will effectively guide a greater range of elements irrespective of the location of the ears,

thereon.

With this' object in view, a pie chute according to the invention is adapted to guide the elements solely 'by their projecting ears and may'consist of two oppositely disposed channelled members which engage the ears of the element and permit In the-operation of such machines a requirethe body of the element to extend as far as may be'required, forwardly or rearwardly in relation to the laterally extending ears.

The invention is hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the: accompanying 5 drawings in which: a

Figure l isa front elevation of a portion of a distributing mechanism provided with a pie chute according to the invention; 1

Figure :2 is a side elevation thereof; 10

Figures 3 and 4 are sections taken on the line A--A of Figure 1 showing respectivelydifferent typgraphical elements in the chute, and, Figures 5 and 6 are edge-viewsof the two forms of typo graphical element'shown in Figures 3 and 4 re- 15 spectively.

The distributing mechanism illustrated in the -drawings comprises distributor screws l by which typographical elements 2 are conveyed along a distributor bar 3 for delivery in the ordinary way 20 to the channels of a magazine, or"in the case of typographical elements not stored in the magazine, to a flared chute I by which such. elements falling from the end of the bar 3 are conducted to a pie chute 6.

A pie chute according to the invention consis of two members 8, I, having oppositely disposed channels 8, by which the ears 9 of the typographical elements are engaged. In the constructional form of chute illustrated in the draw- 30 ings, the members 6 and 1 are constituted by forwardly extending extremities of a substantial U- shaped guide plate, the rear wall III of which is far enough to the rear of the channels 8 .to accommodate an element 2 having a body portion 5 extending the maximum distance rearwardly of the ears 9. Thus, an element 2 such as that represented in Figure 6 is accommodated in the chute in the mannershown in Figure 4, and an element 2 of the form represented in Figure 5 is accommodated in the chute with the main body portion of the element extending forwardly thereof as illustrated in Figure 3.

In an alternative construction not illustrated in the drawings, the channels 8 may be consti- 45 tuted by strips U-shapedin cross-section spaced apart at intervals in the length of the chuteby bridge pieces U-shaped in cross-section extending rearwardly of the channels.

In carrying out the invention, the chute 4 by 50 V which the elements are conducted from the distributor bar 3 to the chute 5 is preferably formed with rails II at its lower end serving to direct the ears 9 of the elements, irrespective of the location of the said ears in relation to the thick- 55 I ness of the element, into the channel sections 8 ing machine a pie chute adapted to guide a typegraphical element solely by its projecting ears comprising two oppositely disposed channelled members which engage the ears of the element regardless of their setwise location and permit the body of the element to extend as far as may be required forwardly or rearwardly in relation to the laterally extending ears.

2. In a typographical composing and distributing machine a pie chute comprising a U- shaped guide plate having channels formed at the forward extremities thereof for guiding a typographical element by its projecting ears.

3. In a typographical composing and distributing machine the combination with a pie chute adapted to guide a typographical element solely byvits projecting ears of a flared chute adapted to receive a typographical element from the distributor of the typographical machine and to conduct the element regardless of the setwise location of its projecting ars into the pie chute.

'4. In a typographical composing and distributing machine the'combination with a U-shaped guide plate having channels formed at the forward extremities thereof for guiding a typographical element by its projecting ears of a flared chute adapted to receive an element from the distributor of the typographical machine and to conduct the element regardless of the setwise' location of its projecting ears into the U-shaped guide plate.

5. In'a typographical composing and distributing machine, the combination with a pie chute adapted to guide a typographical element solely by its projecting ears of a flared chute adapted to receive a typographical element from the distributor oi the typographical machine and to conduct the element regardless of the setwise location of its projecting ears into the pie chute, and means at the'lower end of the flared chute for directing the ears of the element into the pie chute.

6. In a typographical composing and distributing machine the combination with a U-shaped guide plate having channels formed at the forward extremities thereof for guiding a typographical element by its projecting ears of a flared chuteadapted to receive an element from the distributor of the typographical machine and to conduct the element regardless of the setwise location of its projecting cars into the U-shaped guide plate, and rails at the lower end of the flared chute for directing the ears of the element into the channels formed in the U-shaped guide plate.

- RICHARD HENRY SCOTT. 

